Generally speaking tools are much, much cheaper in relative terms than they used to be.
I remember looking longingly at a mini-wood lathe in a model magazine in the 1980s. It was super cheap, ad something like $300.
There's no way it worked as well as something like this random < $50 one now: https://www.banggood.com/DC-24V-Mini-Lathe-Beads-Machine-Pol...
Generally speaking tools are much, much cheaper in relative terms than they used to be.
I remember looking longingly at a mini-wood lathe in a model magazine in the 1980s. It was super cheap, ad something like $300.
There's no way it worked as well as something like this random < $50 one now: https://www.banggood.com/DC-24V-Mini-Lathe-Beads-Machine-Pol...